Two California Women Still Needing To Be Identified
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BAKERSFIELD — In July 1980, two mothers were killed days apart. They were stabbed to death in separate crimes in central California, one in Kern County and the other in Ventura County. Investigators say DNA has identified the man who killed them both, but 38 years later, both women remain unidentified. Police are turning to the public for help.
Wilson Chouest, 66, is currently on trial in Ventura for the deaths of two young women in July 1980.
The woman from Kern County was described as a 25-35-year-old Hispanic or Native American, 5 feet 3 inches tall, about 115 pounds, brown eyes, dark coloured hair with some grey, showed signs of a previous pregnancy, missed an entire top row of teeth and several tattoos. She was possibly known as “Rebecca Ochoa” or “Becky.” In mid-July 1980, her body was found in an orchard with tire tracks and a beer bottle nearby.
The woman from Ventura County was in her 20s and about five months pregnant with a never-to-be-born son. She was described as a Hispanic or Native American, 5 feet 2 inches tall, about 115 pounds, brown eyes, short brown hair with bleached tips, shaved eyebrows with pencilled eyebrows above. The woman appeared to have had extensive dental work done and her clothes were clean. Her body was discovered in a parking lot of West Lake High School with an abandoned motorcycle in some nearby bushes. According to investigators, the woman was supposedly killed elsewhere and was moved to the parking lot.
